(n.) The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than precipitately mediating between clinical hermeneutics and empirical nomology, a critical differentiation of both methodologies is advocated.
(2) Nonhistorical comparisons require pertinent nomological relationships between two or more variables, and include: (a) comparisons between variables used to elucidate these law-like relationships; and (b) comparisons in which unknown properties of one variable are deduced from the known properties of other variables - extrapolations made in biology.
(3) Results obtained from both nonclinical and clinical samples consistently indicate distinct nomological nets for measures of "hopelessness" and "reasons for living."
(4) We support this position since the schizophrenic's strange speech can fit into a larger view about his disordered thinking which is grounded in a nomological net involving various different types of strange behavior.
(5) The independent viability of these two explanations is evaluated in three studies that assess: (1) the distinctiveness of the nomological networks of measures of these two approaches; and (2) the latent variables that might account for any observed distinctiveness and for how two relatively independent constructs could both be related to suicide.
(6) A nomological network of relationships, in which strength and endurance factors correlated in expected directions with other physiological and demographic variables, was hypothesized and tested.
(7) The latter include expansion of the construct's nomological definitional net, inquiry into the antecedents and determinants of resilience, and the application of such generative information to frame preventive interventions for young, profoundly stressed children.
(8) The nomological validity of the Type A behavior pattern was explored.
Nosology
Definition:
(n.) A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.
(n.) That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
(2) This paper employs a cultural constructivist perspective to deconstruct these nosologies and the classificatory process itself.
(3) In the course of the years, López Ibor came to the conclusion that anxious thymopathy was not an independent nosological entity, rather that vital (also called endothymic) anxiety was an element present in all forms of neurotic disorders integrated with personality and biographical factors.
(4) Tier one comprises the nosological diagnosis, and tier two a detailed depiction of the component psychological dysfunctions.
(5) The nosological and conceptual controversies differentiating bilateral ballismus as a phenomenological entity are reviewed.
(6) However, they possibly represent two manifestations of the same nosological entity, which is initially dominated by a subretinal exudation in the macular region.
(7) The exact nosology of this form of excessive hair growth is discussed in relation to hirsuties and the possibility of it representing an 'atavistic' trait.
(8) Implications of comorbidity for research on the nature of psychopathology and the ultimate integration of dimensional and categorical features in our nosology are considered.
(9) Significant heterogeneity has been noted in the parameters of hemogram, myelogram and in the subpopulational composition of peripheral blood and bone marrow lymphocytes in each nosologic form, the group of patients with hyper-IgM syndrome has proved to be most heterogeneic.
(10) An identical type of lesions was revealed: disorders of the connective tissue, destruction of elastic fibers, alterations of vasa vasorum, with cellular reactions typical of each nosological form reflecting the peculiarities of the immunological processes.
(11) A review of the literature is included and the standpoints concerning the nosological entities are discussed.
(12) Clinical and histologic variation of this process has resulted in nosologic confusion, and the cases in the English literature were reviewed to characterize it within racial groups.
(13) 6 autopsy cases of primary leptomeningeal sarcomatosis are presented as a distinct nosological entity with a variable clinical picture and morphology in 5 males and 1 female.
(14) This led to recognize the nosological relationships of these atypical cases with Parsonage-Turner's syndrome and to emphasize the similarities with Guillain-Barré syndrome.
(15) Inflammatory parameters are definitely involved, and the nosological neighbourhood to angylosing spondylitis is discussed.
(16) The nosology of pulmonary contusion is discussed in relation to several factors, including shock, perfusions and associated lesions.
(17) Classifications of mental disorders, more or less based on nosological concepts, are mentioned, as well as the recent emphasis on operational tools for classification.
(18) 80 inpatients were interviewed twice by the same physician with an interval of 24 h. By forming subgroups concerning diagnosis and duration of hospitalization, it was possible to examine the influence of these two criteria on the retest reliability of the following findings: (1) aspects of the interview; (2) AMP symptoms; (3) AMP syndromes; (4) clinical syndrome diagnoses, and (5) nosological diagnoses.
(19) In both classifications the unspecified and the atypical suffered a great diagnostic mobility; in both nosologies the schizophrenia was the most unchangeable diagnosis, no patient discharged with this diagnosis changed to another in the follow up.
(20) The clinical electroencephalography of the sixth and seventh decade of this century saw its task in the coordination of EEG-findings and nosological entities.